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Part of the proposed route for the HS2 high speed rail scheme (Picture: PA)

Campaigners have lost their latest legal battle over the Government’s high-speed rail project HS2.

Objectors warned that large areas along the route could be unnecessarily hit by a costly planning blight for an indefinite period.

The Government was accused of unlawfully failing to carry out a strategic environmental assessment (SEA) which might help to alleviate problems being caused by the flagship scheme for local people and businesses.

But three appeal judges today unanimously rejected the challenge – which concerned the London-Birmingham Phase 1 section of the scheme.

Campaigners accused the Government of failing to carry out an environmental assessment (Picture: David Jones/PA)